Belleville Armchair Wood

Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec, 2015

The Belleville Armchair with a wooden seat shell is the ultimate bistro chair: robust, light and stackable, it plays its role with understated elegance – whether in a traditional bistro setting or a contemporary restaurant interior – and is also ideal for any home dining room.

Base and frame: injection-moulded polyamide. Can be stacked up to 6 high.

This product was designed by

Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec

The brothers Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec live and work in Paris. Their oeuvre ranges from small everyday objects to architectural projects. They have worked with Vitra since 2000 and have contributed numerous designs to both the office and home collections.

Belleville is the name of the vibrant Paris neighbourhood where the designers Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec have their studio. Visual references for the Belleville Chair can be found in the classic French bistro furnishings and lively atmosphere of this Parisian quarter. The chair's familiar shape - even in a contemporary context - might at first be taken for granted, yet it also evokes a sense of mystery and bemusement, since the materiality, construction and fabrication of the chair only become…